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The license is probably a reason for its popularity.

• planede 3y ago
  Possibly. Switching to GPL would probably mean that chromium can no longer use it (I think they use it currently, but I'm not 100% sure). Then they could switch to an other permissively licensed jpeg library that is maintained (is there any?), roll their own (probably forking an old version), or persuade the author to consider licensing new versions permissively (hopefully with some money).
  • Macha 3y ago
    There is of course the original libjpeg, which libjpeg-turbo forked from back in the 00s, which has had its latest release in 2022.
    • sangnoir 3y ago
      I wonder if author has paid a red cent to the maintainers of libjpeg
• pornel 3y ago
  Evidently you can't have both unrestricted free use, and capture all the value you've created.